Questions tagged [beyondcompare]
BeyondCompare is a comparison tool for directories and text and some MS-Office files, giving a side by side view of differences between directories or differences in an individual file.
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Is there any way to compare zipped folders to unzipped file directory?
I know that Windows Explorer, 7-Zip, Beyond Compare, and others can look into a zipped directory to see the file structure and file names.
Is there any way to compare those file names to the unzipped ...
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in "Beyond Compare" is it possible to highlight the difference between a space and non breaking space (char 32 vs char 160)?
I can't make Beyond compare highlight differences between spaces and non breaking spaces.
The Ampersand is showing in red on the left but the NBSP are not showing in red making it look like the ...
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Ignoring Precision Diffs in Beyond Compare
I'm comparing some files with Beyond Compare (3.3).
I have some minor diffs on floating point numbers.
Is there a way to tell BC to ignore such differences after a certain decimal place?
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BeyondCompare doesn't ignore difference in line endings (DOS/UNIX)
I am using BeyondCompare 4 on Windows 10 to compare two directories with thousands of files.
They are the basically same, but one exported from Windows, and another one from Linux. The only difference ...
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Beyond Compare: how to compare all files shown in "folder compare" in separate tabs?
Usually when I perform "folder compare" in Beyond Compare, I would like to compare content of each file in separate tabs.
If I do right click -> open (or double click) on a specific file, ...
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Beyond Compare resync lines
I'm using Beyond Compare 4 Trial Mode to compare to .csv files. Many years ago I recall there was a command to resync the file comparison. One of my csv files has more lines to the other and I need ...
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In Beyond Compare, how can I exclude file names with special characters?
In a Beyond Compare using a Folder Compare, I wish to exclude files that contain special characters. In particular I have files named Icon\r, Icon with a carriage return as the last character of the ...
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How to expand all sections in Text Compare of Beyond Compare?
I have a bunch of code differences in the Text Compare view of Beyond Compare... but they are easier to understand if the context of that block is expanded. I have many of these sections, and it's ...
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How to show content differences in folder view?
When I compare 2 folders, I want to see the differences in file contents. However, this seems impossible in Beyond COmpare v4 because the "Content Comparison" is under an uneditable "Requires Opening ...
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Can Beyond Compare compare filenames whose extensions are different?
I have been tasked with maintaining a Nuget package for a project. In transferring the source files to the package, I need to append a ".pp" file extension to each file so that they can be transformed ...
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File comparison - Code and others
We have a requirement to compare two sets of files, for content similarity
Folder A - 100 files
Folder B - 150 files
The comparison will be with each file in Folder A against each file in Folder B. ...
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Beyond Compare tool to handle two files with same content but in different alignment
I have a question regarding the "Beyond Compare" tool.
I have two text files with the same content but the content is in a different alignment in the two files:
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File1 is as below:- ...
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How to open a remote file in Notepad++, from Beyond Compare?
I am using the comparison tool Beyond Compare (BC) to review text files on a server. BC has a nice built-in editor but sometimes I want to open a specific remote file in Notepad++ (NPP) in order to do ...
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beyond compare force `compare folder` use `text compare`
Both beyond compare 3 & 4 use binary compare when compare folder.
Many files are actully have same content but show as diff(red color), I know it due to line ends difference between linux and ...
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What is fastest for nightly Windows7 local drive to USB external drive backup: ROBOCOPY, XCOPY, or BeyondCompare? [closed]
I have a batch file that backs up all my work every night.
It copies my internal C: an SSD to my primary external USB-3.0 hard disk, and also that primary external hard disk to a secondary external ...
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